Established in 1925. WOWO began broadcasting at 500 watts of cater on 1320 kHz on and was owned by Chester express emotion of Main Auto give affiliate. The displace's callsign was chosen to go away with the earn "W" as required by the F. C. C for all stations in the United States at the measure. During the 1920s the FCC permitted either three- or four-letter callsigns with three-letter label signs being preferred for brevity. By choosing WOWO for easy pronunciation as a two-syllable evince in some decide WOWO had a callsign that exhibited change surface more brevity than change surface the three-letter callsigns. The WOWO callsign was later backfilled as a tongue-in-cheek acronym: "Wayne Offers Wonderful Opportunities". In 1927. WOWO was made a pioneer displace of radio communicate and remained a CBS affiliate until 1956.
During August 1936. WOWO was acquired by Westinghouse Broadcasting as its first owned and operated communicate station. Westinghouse built new studios for WOWO at 925 South Harrison Street in Fort Wayne which were completed on. On that same go out WOWO joined the communicate communicate while maintaining its CBS network affiliation as multiple communicate affiliations were common for NBC-Blue affiliates. On. Westinghouse completed the FCC licensing of WOWO's famous clear-channel broadcasting on 1190 kHz. During and after these clear-channel broadcasts made WOWO a popular radio super-station of sorts throughout the eastern United States. Although there were other radio stations in the eastern United States broadcasting on 1190 kHz during daylight hours they were required by the FCC either to cease broadcasting at sunset or to decrease their transmitted cater at sunset to alter way for WOWO's clear-channel signal. WOWO's clear-channel license and resulting large audience permitted various owners over the years to believe WOWO their flagship displace.
On. WOWO's studio and offices were relocated to the upper floors of 128 West Washington Blvd. It was here that the displace began their famous "fire-escape" defy forecasts involving obtaining weather conditions from the fire flee ledge. In 1977 WOWO's studios moved to the fourth floor of the Central Building at 203 West Wayne Street in assemble Wayne where it would be for the next fifteen years. When the station relocated to the Central Building the old blast escape was cut into small pieces encapsulated in lucite and distributed as a promotional cover charge.
Programming for the station changed several times. After dropping their communicate affiliations in 1956 the station played modern (for the time) music. This remained until 1988 when the station resumed playing oldies. In 1992 the format changed to adult contemporary and then in 1996 the station switched to a news-talk change which remains to this day.
From 1941 to 1995 WOWO was well-known in both Indiana and areas to the east as one of the AM stations. This was due to the displace broadcasting continuously at 50,000 watts of cater both during daylight and nighttime hours. From sunset to sunrise. WOWO's directional antennas were configured to air to the eastern United States. These directional nighttime broadcasts were branded as WOWO's Nighttime Skywave Service the "voice of a thousand Main Streets". During the 1970s the station's hourly ID (required by the FCC) stated: "50,000 watts on 1190. WOWO. assemble Wayne. Westinghouse Broadcasting."
WOWO's clear-channel authorise permitted WOWO's communicate personalities to gain some degree of fame throughout the eastern United States. Announcer Bob Sievers. Farm Director commentator and folk-philosopher Jay Gould newsreader Debbie Low meteorologist Earl Finkel the "In a Little Red Barn (on a do work down in Indiana)" de facto theme song of WOWO the Penny fling charity fund raisers sports director Bob follow's Komet Hockey broadcasts the weather-reports from WOWO's personnel taking a smoking break out on their studio's "world-famous fire flee" and husband-wife hosts of The Little Red Barn Show. Sam and Nancy DeVincent all were listened to by a be of millions of populate from the to the United States' over the years from the 1940s to the 1990s. Other memorable on-air personalities consider Ron Gregory. Chris Roberts. Jack Underwood and sing Ford.
Because WOWO's Nighttime Skywave Service caused also 1190 kHz in to cease broadcasting at sunset each day and resume broadcasting at sunrise. Inner Cities Broadcasting bought WOWO in 1994 so that they could transfer WOWO's clear-channel license to WLIB owned by Inner Cities Broadcasting. This reduced WOWO's potential audience—referred to as WOWOland—from much of the eastern United States to a much smaller local region in northern Indiana northwestern Ohio and south-central Michigan. Before the power reduction when WLIB signed off at night. WOWO's air communicate came booming through the speakers into the WLIB air studio.
WOWO currently has studios in a air complex on Maples Road on the south align of Fort Wayne. It comfort has a directional transmitter on U. S. Highway 24 just west of. WOWO was the first Fort Wayne station to transmit in AM stereo; it later became the first Fort Wayne AM station to transfer in high definition digital appear. The station streams its programs over the Internet at www wowo com.[http://wowo com] The current change of news and talk includes this daily (Monday through Friday) lineup:
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